Exam 12: AWS DevOps Engineer - Professional (DOP-C01)

A DevOps Engineer must create a Linux AMI in an automated fashion. The newly created AMI identification must be stored in a location where other build pipelines can access the new identification programmatically What is the MOST cost-effective way to do this?

A company's security team discovers that IAM access keys were exposed in a public code repository. Moving forward, the DevOps team wants to implement a solution that will automatically disable any keys that are suspected of being compromised, and notify the security team. Which solution will accomplish this?

A company is using AWS CodeDeploy to automate software deployment. The deployment must meet these requirements: A number of instances must be available to serve traffic during the deployment. Traffic must be balanced across those instances, and the instances must automatically heal in the event of failure. A new fleet of instances must be launched for deploying a new revision automatically, with no manual provisioning. Traffic must be rerouted to the new environment to half of the new instances at a time. The deployment should succeed if traffic is rerouted to at least half of the instances; otherwise, it should fail. Before routing traffic to the new fleet of instances, the temporary files generated during the deployment process must be deleted. At the end of a successful deployment, the original instances in the deployment group must be deleted immediately to reduce costs. How can a DevOps Engineer meet these requirements?

A DevOps team needs to query information in application logs that are generated by an application running multiple Amazon EC2 instances deployed with AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Instance log streaming to Amazon CloudWatch Logs was enabled on Elastic Beanstalk. Which approach would be the MOST cost-efficient?

A retail company has adopted AWS OpsWorks for managing its deployments. In the last three months, the company has discovered that some production instances have been restarting without reason. Upon inspection of the AWS CloudTrail logs, a DevOps Engineer determined that those instances were restarted by OpsWorks. The Engineer now wants automated email notifications whenever OpsWorks restarts an instance when the instance is deemed unhealthy or unable to communicate with the service endpoint. How can the Engineer meet this requirement?

An ecommerce company is running an application on AWS. The company wants to create a standby disaster recovery solution in an additional Region that keeps the current application code. The application runs on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer (ALB). The instances run in an EC2 Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones. The database layer is hosted on an Amazon RDS MySQL Multi-AZ DB instance. Amazon Route 53 DNS records point to the ALB. Which combination of actions will meet these requirements with the LOWEST cost? (Choose three.)

A company has a mission-critical application on AWS that uses automatic scaling. The company wants the deployment lifecycle to meet the following parameters: • The application must be deployed one instance at a time to ensure the remaining fleet continues to serve traffic. • The application is CPU intensive and must be closely monitored. • The deployment must automatically roll back if the CPU utilization of the deployment instance exceeds 85%. Which solution will meet these requirements?

Your company has developed a web application and is hosting it in an Amazon S3 bucket configured for static website hosting. The application is using the AWS SDK for JavaScript in the browser to access data stored in an Amazon DynamoDB table. How can you ensure that API keys for access to your data in DynamoDB are kept secure?

You are responsible for your company's large multi-tiered Windows-based web application running on Amazon EC2 instances situated behind a load balancer. While reviewing metrics, you have started noticing an upwards trend for slow customer page load time. Your manager has asked you to come up with a solution to ensure that customer load time is not affected by too many requests per second. Which technique would you use to solve this issue?

What is the proper (best practice) way to begin a playbook?

After a data leakage incident that led to thousands of stolen user profiles, a compliance officer is demanding automatic, auditable security policy checks for all of the company's data stores, starting with public access of Amazon S3 buckets. Which solution will accomplish this with the LEAST amount of effort?

Which of these is not a Pseudo Parameter in AWS CloudFormation?

A company has a web application that uses AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB to develop a web application. The web application has increased dramatically in popularity, resulting in unpredictable spikes in traffic. A DevOps Engineer has noted that 90% of the requests are duplicate read requests to the DynamoDB table and the images stored in an S3 bucket. How can the Engineer improve the performance of the website?

A company is running a number of internet-facing APIs that use an AWS Lambda authorizer to control access. A security team wants to be alerted when a large number of requests are failing authorization, as this may indicate API abuse. Given the magnitude of API requests, the team wants to be alerted only if the number of HTTP 403 Forbidden responses goes above 2% of overall API calls. Which solution will accomplish this?

The management team at a company with a large on-premises OpenStack environment wants to move non-production workloads to AWS. An AWS Direct Connect connection has been provisioned and configured to connect the environments. Due to contractual obligations, the production workloads must remain on-premises, and will be moved to AWS after the next contract negotiation. The company follows Center for Internet Security (CIS) standards for hardening images; this configuration was developed using the company's configuration management system. Which solution will automatically create an identical image in the AWS environment without significant overhead?

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of Docker's content addressable storage model?

A company wants to use Amazon ECS to provide a Docker container runtime environment. For compliance reasons, all Amazon EBS volumes used in the ECS cluster must be encrypted. Rolling updates will be made to the cluster instances and the company wants the instances drained of all tasks before being terminated. How can these requirements be met? (Choose two.)

Which answer is the proper syntax for specifying two target hosts on the command line when running an Ansible Playbook?

A DevOps Engineer is building a continuous deployment pipeline for a serverless application using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild. The source, build, and test stages have been created with the deploy stage remaining. The company wants to reduce the risk of an unsuccessful deployment by deploying to a small percentage of customers and monitoring prior to a full release to all customers. How should the deploy stage be configured to meet these requirements?

Which of these is not an intrinsic function in AWS CloudFormation?